The Tingler
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Movie Reviews of The Tingler
Movie Review: Oh My Gosh- SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bill Castle's 1959 scream flick "The Tingler" is a brilliant pick for your Halloween party. It has everything you want to make you scream- including Vinny Price's voice commands, towards the end, to scream. (This film, perhaps my favorite Castle production, was producer Castle's next horror project after "The House on Haunted Hill"...also very scary.)
You'll want to watch this cult movie classic in the dark... turn out all your lights, grab some popcorn, and prepare to scream! The tingler monster is totally cool (with tentacles, lobster-like body, and cute lead wires)! The wide-eyed, screaming voice, tingler-chasing acting is brilliant (the actors certainly had fun making this one) and frightening.
The motion picture presents in monochromic black and white, except for the bright red blood- just too cool! Fiend flick fanatics will love this movie, particularly the final 10 minutes, beyond words... with screams all around! Be sure to watch the "Special Features" portion of the 1999 DVD- it adds to the mayhem (and helpfully explains "Percepto").
Oh My Gosh, "The Tingler" is loose in this review...SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!
Movie Review: SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
PT Barnumish producer/director William Castle hit his stride in this 1959 classic. In theaters, he used a gimmick called PERCEPTO, which would send a little shock through selected seats in the theaters, causing some real frights to unsuspecting moviegoers.
The movie is really hard to believe, but it's done with such panache and Vincent Price is at his excellent hammiest best, it rates as a real horror classic. THE TINGLER is a physical embodiment of fear that looks like a centipede with claws and snaps the spinal cord of the victim IF they don't get to scream. Price is joined by Judith Evelyn as a deaf mute whose nerdy husband (the excellent Phillip Coolidge) decides to use this tingler effect to scare her to death and run off with her fortune. The movie has a classic sequence in which the tingler gets loose in a movie theater and he tells everyone to scream for their lives!
Castle was known for his gimmicky showmanship, evidenced in such films as 13 GHOSTS (with its 3-D glasses) and THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (with a skeleton flying through the theater audience), and in THE TINGLER he gave us horror fans exactly what we wanted--a good scream!!!
Movie Review: "Spine-Tinglering Good"
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie terrorized me as a child of eight. In fact, it terrorized me so much that I watched it five times as it played at the local theater of my small town. I screamed my little head off--even when there was nothing to really scream about. It is a great horror film in black and white and only the BLOOD is in red--what a technical feat in 1957-1958! It had already played in the larger cities and those of us in small bergs had to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for it to get to our town. I stood in a long line to get tickets that first day as it played, a matinee. A whole row of girlie gigglers, we peeked between our fingers at scene after bloody scene, screaming and screaming.
Now the movie could be considerd schlock. But it is schlock at its best. If you want to have a scream--and a laugh, pick it up in time for Halloween. Vincent Price doing some of his best work--but the Tingler is a real scene-stealer.
Movie Review: William Castle's Cult Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Horror master; Vincent Price (HOUSE OF WAX; HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL; THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS; BRIGHAM YOUNG) stars in William Castle's THE TINGLER. Alongside; Darryl Hickman, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn, Pamela Lincoln and Patricia Cutts as the family and colleagues of Vincent Price's character; Dr. Warren Chapin. Dr. Chapin is a doctor searching for the causes of these strange deaths in town. He discovers the tingle you get in your spin when you're scared is a Tingler. A Tingler is a parasite that feeds off of your fear and it gets paralyzed if you scream. Later on while imprisoning the Tingler, it escapes and unleashes terror upon the local movie theater. After it gets captured once again, Dr. Chapin betrays his newfound friend and feeds him to the wrath of the Tingler. This movie is great with Vincent Price supporting it with his role, but it is a silly movie, but worth watching. 5 out of 5 star rating!Movie Review: DVD is fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD version of _The Tingler_ is the way to go for horror buffs. It includes priceless footage of the legendary William Castle promoting the film, as well as interesting comments by co-star Darryl Hickman. Hickman seems somewhat apologetic for his role in the film. I was thinking, "Are you kidding? This turned out to be one of the biggest cult classics of all time."Also hilarious is the drive-in scream sequence, which dealt with the problem of the tingler being loose in a drive-in rather than a theater.
Great film, Castle's campy best. Vincent Price is memorable--he goes on the first LSD trip ever on film--in 1959! Judith Evelyn is remarkable as Ollie's deaf-mute wife. The famous bathroom sequence is as good as it gets.
Sharpen up your suspension of disbelief and enjoy!